Backported bbba2c7 from master

.gitignore

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 .idea
 .iml
 .DS_Store
-target
+target
+.classpath
+.project
+.settings
+.vagrant

pom.xml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
     <groupId>com.github.shyiko</groupId>
     <artifactId>mysql-binlog-connector-java</artifactId>
-    <version>0.3.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.5.0</version>
 
     <name>mysql-binlog-connector-java</name>
     <description>MySQL Binary Log connector</description>
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
         <vagrant.bin>vagrant</vagrant.bin>
-        <vagrant.integration.box>${basedir}/supplement/vagrant/mysql-5.6.12-sandbox-prepackaged</vagrant.integration.box>
+        <vagrant.integration.box>${basedir}/supplement/vagrant/mysql-5.7.15-sandbox-prepackaged</vagrant.integration.box>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
@@ -207,6 +207,8 @@
                             -Dvagrant.integration.box=supplement/vagrant/mysql-5.5.27-sandbox-prepackaged
                         mvn -P coverage verify \
                             -Dvagrant.integration.box=supplement/vagrant/mysql-5.6.12-sandbox-prepackaged
+                        mvn -P coverage verify \
+                        -Dvagrant.integration.box=supplement/vagrant/mysql-5.7.15-sandbox-prepackaged
 
                         # submit coverage report to coveralls
                         mvn -P coverage coveralls:jacoco -DrepoToken=&lt;coveralls.io&gt;

src/main/java/com/github/shyiko/mysql/binlog/event/deserialization/AbstractRowsEventDataDeserializer.java

@@ -168,6 +168,8 @@ protected Serializable deserializeCell(ColumnType type, int meta, int length, By
                 return deserializeSet(length, inputStream);
             case GEOMETRY:
                 return deserializeGeometry(meta, inputStream);
+            case JSON:
+                return deserializeJson(meta, inputStream);
             default:
                 throw new IOException("Unsupported type " + type);
         }
@@ -333,6 +335,21 @@ protected Serializable deserializeGeometry(int meta, ByteArrayInputStream inputS
         return inputStream.read(dataLength);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Deserialize the {@code JSON} value on the input stream, and return MySQL's internal binary representation
+     * of the JSON value. See {@link com.github.shyiko.mysql.binlog.event.deserialization.json.JsonBinary} for
+     * a utility to parse this binary representation into something more useful, including a string representation.
+     *
+     * @param meta the number of bytes in which the length of the JSON value is found first on the input stream
+     * @param inputStream the stream containing the JSON value
+     * @return the MySQL internal binary representation of the JSON value; may be null
+     * @throws IOException if there is a problem reading the input stream
+     */
+    protected byte[] deserializeJson(int meta, ByteArrayInputStream inputStream) throws IOException {
+        int blobLength = inputStream.readInteger(4);
+        return inputStream.read(blobLength);
+    }
+
     // checkstyle, please ignore ParameterNumber for the next line
     protected Long asUnixTime(int year, int month, int day, int hour, int minute, int second, int millis) {
         // https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/datetime.html
@@ -377,7 +394,7 @@ private static int[] split(long value, int divider, int length) {
     /**
      * see mysql/strings/decimal.c
      */
-    private static BigDecimal asBigDecimal(int precision, int scale, byte[] value) {
+    public static BigDecimal asBigDecimal(int precision, int scale, byte[] value) {
         boolean positive = (value[0] & 0x80) == 0x80;
         value[0] ^= 0x80;
         if (!positive) {

src/main/java/com/github/shyiko/mysql/binlog/event/deserialization/ColumnType.java

@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ public enum ColumnType {
     TIMESTAMP_V2(17),
     DATETIME_V2(18),
     TIME_V2(19),
+    JSON(245),
     NEWDECIMAL(246),
     ENUM(247),
     SET(248),